The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-15

and shows excellent penmanskip The
whole style and language of this man not
only shows him to have been
an Intelligent person oI1srr but Tt.r, also So
human feeling, and taken with what he
stated to Whitaker on the way to Manatee,
and indeed to others, indicates a nature so
utterly depraved as to stand by itself in the
record of enormity. He said that when he
went back and found his wife still alive
that she looked so sweet and tender, with
her eyes upturned to him in supplication and
entreaty, and calling him the children's pet
name, Darling para, don't kill me" and
that not being satisfied with striking her
again, thud after thud, with the butt of the
cruel Ratchet, he took the chisel, which had
been sharpened for the purpose,
and placed it where there was
little hollow formed by the
Joining of breast and throat and laying on
the jugulsr vein struck it heavy blow with
the Ratchet until it went deep down into her
white neck and breast He told Whitaker
he could tell him things great deal more
horrible than that in connection with the
matter if he wished to hear it, but Whitta-
ker told him he was already sickened, and
did not wish to hear any more. He took
time when the baby was lying in its moth
er's arms, and not being satisfied with TAX
ing the edge of the Ratchet for bis milan
guaged crime to refine the cruelty, he must
needs use the butt of the Ratchet, to break
and pound their skulls.
DELoS GREEN WITH HIS PRETTY, INTELLI-
GENT YOUNG WIFE
and a baby, came to Manatee county about
four years ago and purchased land and
settled in the A5bie neighborhood, having
moved here through inducements of G. +.
Abbie, who was at that time agent of the
immigration Bureau. He came from Fast
or West Avon, N. Y, and it is stated by
some of his neighbors that his father was
wealthy, but had recently met with finan-
cial difficulties which caused DeloS to be-
come detected and Respondent, as he bad
expected for long time money from his
father to aid him in improving his place.
His neighbors noticed his manner, but
simply thought that his troubles arose from
financial embarrassment, out of which he
would work himself as he was very indus
trious, and physically able to do any kind
of work.
NJ Hoover, his nearest neighbor, bears
out the truth Of Green's confession that he
and his wife never quarreled, but really
lived in peace and agreement, and he APP
peared to be devoted to her, even aiding her
with the cooking and washing. From what
he first told Hoover after his terrible crime,
he seemed to have mania that his wife and
children would soon come to want He
had Just sold his land to the Florida Mort
gage and Investment Company for $500,
and the money was in the house at the time
of the murder. He and family were to have
returned North this week, and a part of his
things had been forwarded to the ware
house in Manatee.
Green was a splendid type of manhood,
and was very fine-looking, had a pleasant,
open expression, and was rather soft and
persuasive in his conversation. He was
very popular with his neighbors, and his
%, 60 leo. l,I,
acquaintance. The fearful slaughter of
Green's family, by his own hands, and his
own tragic end, have completely appalled,
the whole community, and nothing else can
be talked Of The following is the confess
sion above alluded to, written by Green
himself:
CONFESSION OF DELos r. GREEN
II was born of Christian parents, and
taught to regard the Bible. But at a very
early age my passions got the mastery over
me, and led me to commit every crime
named in the law to the jews Since
coming to maturity l have been under the
influence and effects of my early excuses,
though unwilling to acknowledge my weak
nesses. loved my wife, but my bad habits
caused me to make her miserable | had
been praying to God for wisdom, and at last
He showed me where | had failed Then |
was seized with remorse for past misdeeds,
through my life, and when | began to re-
feet on what my life had been wanted
70 put my poor wife and children out
of their misery. | gave way to this
feeling, and along with it was dependency
over past misdeeds and worry over the
future. | murdered my wife and children
against my wife's entreaties I had no
mercy on them because | wished to put
them out of their misery. l left my wife
for dead, but when | returned to the house
found she had got upon the bed and was
still alive. She called me darling papa
but Knowing what | had done l still held to
my purpose to put them out of misery and
stabbed her again while she called on God.
i then washed up some of the blood from
the floor, changed my clothes and left the
house. My wife was a noble, God-fearing
woman, and she taught our children to
pray to God. My past life had
been SO wretched in the light of
reflection that | did not want my poor
children to endure anything of the kind |
believe in Gods word entirely; murdered
my wife and children without mercy, and
beg that you will have no mercy on me. No
one can be Christian who does not take
the Bible as whole. l was proud, which
caused me to conceal my SINS but they
have found me ont at last. There is no one
to blame for my end but myself Ny crime
Is entirely the result of not controlling my
passions. In my youth had always tried
to be kind to my wife. There was no
quarreling between us, and / never struck
her before. Ny crime is but the fit end of a
life that has been wicked, while a regard for
appearances had kept me from showing out
my true nature. had tried to serve God,
but it was only a half way service. Ny
deed in my present light is the most cruel
crime ever committed, worthy only of a
savage. My wife was holding and nursing
her baby. My boy stood near and asked
what | was doing to mamma. | struck her
down, and then struck him, sitting the
baby upon the floor. Then struck the
baby. l pray that by suffering death by
law may atone for some of my past"
Sara Sofa is indeed 'bloody ground"
some of the most revolving murders of
modern times having been committed in
that neighborhood within the past few
years. A few years ago an invalid cut his
throat with a razor: then Reilly had his
brains shot out and his throat cut; then
Abbie had his brains shot out and his body
carried TO sea and thrown to the sharks
then Bartholomew, one of the gang, fell
from tree and broke his back from which
he died: then this Green tragedy and
Green's own killing, complete the series up
TO the present tsvlh. E. NJ. G.